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RAIN AND LACK OF RAIN 239worked out the extreme South-West almost toits limit turned sharply to the East across theneck of the peninsula. We camped that nightin a stackyard near Glenluce. On the Saturdayalso it rained allday with increasing force anddetermination, and I was a gooddeal disappointedand annoyed. Not of course that Iobjected to the rain, for I welcomed it, and I hadbeen hoping for some time that we should getsafely round the corner before the weather broke.Rain is quite negligible on the road so long as itis coming from behind. The front of the vanremains open as usual and all goeson well. Itisonly when we have to travel into the teethof it that the thing becomes complicated. Thewhole of the front must then be shut up, and it isdreary work sitting inside, while Herbert remains,a sport for the elements, on the footboard. Nowrain in the South of Scotland, when it sets seriouslyto work (as it so often does), comes almost withoutexception from the South- West, and as soon aswe had turned the corner our route would lie forten days to come in a North-Easterly line.you will see that I had made my dispositions mostcarefully, and when the rain began just as wereached the corner I had good cause to congratulatemyself. I smiled at the streams upon theSo